HC Deb 04 June 1981 vol 5 cc411-2W
Mr. Kaufman

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will bring up to date, or as nearly up to date as possible, the information contained in his reply on shorthold to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Ardwick, on 6 March, Official Report, columns 228–30.

Mr. Heseltine

Up to 24 April the number of rent registrations where applicants had indicated that their letting was a shorthold is set out in the attached table.

Number of fair rents registered for shorthold tenancies
Rent Registrations
LONDON
Barking 1
Barnet 18
Bexley 1
Brent 4
Bromley 2
City of London
Camden 8
Croydon 9
Ealing 3
Enfield 4
Greenwich 4
Hackney
Hammersmith 1
Haringey 5
Harrow 6
Havering 1
Hillingdon 5
Hounslow 6
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kingston-upon-Thames l
Lambeth
Lewisham
Merton 5
Newham 3
Redbridge 1
Richmond upon Thames 8
Southwark 2
Sutton 2
Tower Hamlet
Waltham Forest 1
Wandsworth 17
Westminster 4
London subtotal 122
REST OF ENGLAND
Avon 44
Bedfordshire 7
Berkshire 30
Buckinghamshire 26
Cambridgeshire 22
Cheshire 20
Cleveland 4
Cornwall 49
Cumbria 34
Derbyshire 29
Devon 79

Rent Registrations
Dorset 46
Durham 11
East Sussex 60
Essex 64
Gloucestershire 28
Greater Manchester 19
Hampshire 44
Hereford and Worcester 35
Hertfordshire 11
Humberside 19
Isle of Wight 6
Kent 96
Lancashire 32
Leicestershire 17
Lincolnshire 16
Merseyside 9
Norfolk 62
Northumberland 16
Northamptonshire 15
North Yorkkshire 52
Nottinghamshire 24
Oxfordshire 27
Shropshire 17
Somerset 34
South Yorkshire 39
Staffordshire 11
Suffolk 24
Surrey 29
Tyne and Wear 16
Warwickshire 6
West Midlands 17
West Sussex 20
West Yorkshire 53
Wiltshire 16
Rest of England subtotal 1,335
ENGLAND TOTAL 1,457

It should be emphasised, however, that the figures do not represent the number of shorthold lettings taking place for the following reasons first, because the question on the application form is a voluntary one; secondly, because shorthold lettings where a fair rent has already been registered cannot be identified until the rent is re-registered which may not be for up to three years; and, thirdly, because an application for a fair rent need not be made until 28 days after the start of the tenancy in cases where no fair rent is registered and some applications already made by 24 April would still be being processed.

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